Real Name: Sonny Long Gender: male Member Since: September 29, 2007 Last Signed In: January 09, 2009 Profile Views: 773 Blog Views: 2155 Due Process First things first Murder trial site set Fingers crossed Got to throw the line in the water to get a nibble The next wave Movement on the legal front Trying to keep the faith Agents, agents everywhere Still waiting September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 
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Mistakes, errors, bobbles and boo-boos
I am going to wander a little off topic this morning, although it's still writing related. On the discussion forums in reaction to Aprill Brandon's column on sexism, someone posted a comment about a grammatical error. We all make mistakes. I think our editors would agree more errors than we'd like slip through into print on a regular basis, but they are just that...mistakes. Human error, not made of ignorance, just plain, simple mistakes. We honestly try to do it right, perfectly right, every time. But mistakes happen. Anytime there is a mistake in a headline I have to laugh as I remember a pretty bad one I made once. I had my own community newspaper in newsletter format and inadvertently left the letter "L" out of the word "public" in a headline. Oops! In my correction in the next issue, I blamed spell check (see it doesn't catch everything) and explained I was only off by a hair! Oh dear! So, yes there are mistakes in the paper. We all make them. Don't you? "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," or something like that. Keep writing. 1 comments from 1 users
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LittleBlueBook
on Jul 30, 2008 at 09:14 PM
First, weird stuff: the anti-spam text was C R A W L. A real word in a blog about misspelled words. Go figure! I think I am going to run out and buy a lottery ticket, or something! Sonny, you are right, everyone makes mistakes. My written mistakes are not read by a zillion people, a reporter's are. Writing is not my job. A reporter's job is writing. Big difference. I have believed for the last twenty-five to thirty years that the Advocate has needed a proofreader. Spell check is not a proofreader. But it could be worse. I have learned how to read the Advocate as it is. YOU do a great job, Sonny. Remember how much fun we all had with the Kenmore thing? Some boo-boos can be a good thing. You keep writing!
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